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Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC

Posted by timothy on from the can-go-wrong-can-go-wrong-nothing-can dept.

Not so very long ago after passengers were left hanging by a similar glitch at LAX, Gilby4mPuck writes with another story of NIC failure leading to a disruption of air traffic, this time in Ireland, excerpting: "Data showing the location, height and speed of approaching planes disappeared from screens for 10 minutes each time. ... Thales ATM stated that in 10 similar air traffic control Centres worldwide with over 500,000 flight hours (50 years), this is the first time an incident of this type has been reported. ... '[They] confirmed the root cause of the hardware system malfunction as an intermittent malfunctioning network card which consequently overcame the built-in system redundancy,' said an IAA spokeswoman."

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  1. My Own Meat Tastes Good - Balls Deep In Momma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can suck the clown paint off my own dick, bitch, just you watch..

    yeah, that's good stuff!

    Don't throw momma from the train, I'm goin balls deep in that snatch!

  2. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's more insightful than most of the shit here.

    1. Re:MOD PARENT UP by oodaloop · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, mod THIS parent up. That was way more insightful.

      --
      Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
  3. Goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Goatse

  4. Re:There's only one way to solve this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With using several kinds of ne2000 NIC's be damned sure THEY WILL BE putting them on the list (well, at least some of them then)!